Sorry to break it to you, but every game incorporates some AI tools. If you use Photoshop, Unreal, a DLSS, SpeedTree, procedural modeling, or even automatic UVW... that's AI. Sorry for just being honest enough to say it.
That said, I understand and sincerely respect your choice.
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I may like to suffer cuz I handpainted a whole hero tree from top to bottom 🌝
It was actually fun to do and know I will do this process again !
I did a lot of texturing on Procreate and 3D coat, base mesh and UVs with speedtree, HP on Zbrush and base color on Substance Painter
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No speedtree helps you make the individual tasks.
There are things like PCG that help you procedurally lay down a lot... but i dont like to use it haha. I feel like i can "see" when it was done procedurally versus hand doing it. Plus i want to constantly make sure the character flow through the level feels good, so everytime i place a bunch i play through it to make sure your character doesnt get hung up on anything. It's slow for sure, but better in the long run i think.
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speaking of trees, worked on a SpeedTree integration
the reason we can get vast foliage in games? simple :)
anything complex starts tanking performance quickly
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If you care too much about eye candy, you can enable foliage and SpeedTree. You can also turn on real-time reflections for every car, add dynamic shadows with heavy filtering, and top it all with 8x AA-assuming you want the lowest FPS possible 😁
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When it was called machine learning nobody cared.
When it was called scrips, nobody cared.
When was middleware tools, automated assets (SpeedTree), rule-based systems, decision trees, agent systems, procedural systems, algo generation, fractal gen…
You get the idea.
🤷♂️🤦♂️😂
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When it was called machine learning nobody cared.
When it was called scrips, nobody cared.
When was middleware tools, automated assets (SpeedTree), rule-based systems, decision trees, agent systems, procedural systems, algo generation, fractal gen…
You get the idea.
🤷♂️🤦♂️😂
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there was one of these "disclaimers" where the publisher was trying to say SpeedTree was AI
speedtree is a tree generator that was first released in 2002. if that counts as AI, elder scrolls oblivion is AI-generated
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I’m going to get crucified for this but it’s actually a great use case for AI to make the initial tile set, and the replace things and spend time crafting the improvements.
Not particularly different from using speedtree or a terrain generator and then refining by hand.
I do most of the level design and layouts on paper and then build the tileset on top of them
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